Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pill, friend! No war, no peace talks, no useless trips to the doctor, no kicking the dog around and no teeth knocked out. If this is a preview of heaven, count me out . . . The Creator was wise in creating the discontented human species . . . Under this pill system, people will shoot themselves just for the hell...
...paper. To the driver who was taking me to Le Kef, I thought it only fair to explain that German arms were a little out of my line."It's all right, monsieur," he said. "I drive so fast that by the time the fellagha get ready to shoot, we are far past them." He seldom drove under 70 m.p.h...
...narrow streets and bush trails of Guatemala could move faster than any commission ; the Arbenz regime could be shattered - or it could emerge victorious and cockier than ever. Jacobo Arbenz, stubborn as ever, clapped on a tougher form of martial law, tightened up on blackouts, authorized his cops to shoot motorists caught with headlights on during a night alert...
Camera fans can shoot the eclipse without much trouble. According to New York's Hayden Planetarium, the total eclipse can be shot with fast black and white film using a one-second exposure and f/4·5· Color film calls for one second and f/2. These settings will show the horizon faintly as well as silhouettes of nearby objects. The partial eclipse requires a filter (Kodak neutral density 4.0), 1/100 seconds and f/16 for black and white film...
...asked, "What's the little white ball for?" Dwight Eisenhower, Sam Snead and about 4,000,000 other American golfers could have told him. To the casual eye, golf can seem deceptively undramatic. Golfers do not run or jump or kick or pounce or pound or shoot off firearms. Their play seems unhurried, gentlemanly, almost oldfashioned. Yet, in the pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill, and the thrill of chance-taking. They also find camaraderie and relaxation. To some, golf may merely mean the smell...